Sunday, August 9, 2015

Approaching Ocracoke on the ferry. $15 for the 2 1/2 hour trip. Cheap.

Teeter's Campground, the place to stay. He takes your reservation over the phone with no info required but your name and only takes cash or a check when you arrive or leave. His grandparents gave the land for the BritishCemetery which is at the beginning of the block. Southern manners.

Every night the ducks waddle in to sleep.

Fried green tomatoes.

Across the street from the campground above and below.

The best deal going and very friendly also.

Evidently I have the only Sambuca ever made as nothing comes up in a search. I guess a man decided to start building them and then for whatever reason stopped. A 1995 with 61K and pristine.

Leaving the dock on the ferry back with another injury to my left foot after one last year. I believe they must be from a bad injury I had sliding into home with steel cleats in high school. Strange that it has waited this long to reoccur.

Emerald Isle

Really.

Our backyard in Cape Carteret

Giving my foot a rest. :)

The summers here remind me of Vietnam, but much cooler and delightful.

In light of the recent demand by the politically correct police to ban
the Confederate Flag, we have started carrying a selection of
Confederate Flag products. We have Confederate flag wood signs,
Confederate flag bumper stickers, Confederate flag T-Shirts, and more.

We're currently working with several vendors to get actual Confederate
Flags in stock.

Check back here often, as we hope to have a supply in
stock within the next few weeks!

We are under attack and every single one of us needs to adopt a primitive, survival mindset.
Your ancestors burned people in wicker-men to appease the gods. They
removed people from their country by hurling them from cliffs. They
painted their bodies and fought naked. They divined the future from
their enemies’ entrails and drank from their skulls.

Interview of Meghan Kelly when she was
climbing up the ladder not minding to get on the Howard Stern Show to
gain fame while allowing Stern to discuss with her every sort of smut
including her private sex live which is supposed to be sacred. She
laughs and is okay with Stern discussing penises, breasts, in a very
trashy nonchalant way.

One witness at the scene, who would not give his name to the Pensacola
News Journal, said he was doing yard work Sunday morning when he
witnessed what he said was an altercation between two men. He said one
of the men appeared to be in a rage and chased the other with a brick
out of his view, but he can’t confirm that fight was connected to the
death.

Breitbart Texas was at the Waller County Sheriff’s Office county jail
Saturday evening when a protester told reporters and others present,
that all white people should be killed.

She also called white people and
reporters, “terrorists.” Her orders – “go back into the cave where you
came from.”

As reported
by Breitbart Texas, the group Anonymous posted a YouTube video and made
threatening demands upon the Waller County Sheriff’s Department and
Waller County officials saying, “We all know where you live. No mercy
for murderers.”

The group planned protests in 35 cities throughout the U.S. on
Saturday, August 8th, and made specific threats against the Waller
County Sheriff and other Waller County police officers. They were at the
Waller County jail on Saturday evening.

“You see this nappy-ass hair on my head? … That means I am one of
those more militant Negroes,” a protester later identified as “Sunshine”
said.

She told reporters she was at the protest because “these redneck
mother-f**kers murdered Sandra Bland because she had nappy hair like
me.”

I thought I had posted this before, but it didn't come up on a search.

Recently Mr. Donald Fraser wrote a column in my hometown newspaper, the Northeast Georgian,
titled “Battle Flag Promotes Hate, Not Heritage.” He opened his article
expressing a twinge of fear that he would probably not make many
friends. I am glad, however, he is willing to say what he believes even
at the expense of offending others, a luxury often denied those who find
themselves on the other side of the flag issue. I am also happy for him
to have his say because I appreciate one thing the Confederate battle
flag stands for: freedom. In that spirit, I offered another perspective
(in shorter form—500 words) in the same paper.

St. Andrew’s Cross, the “X” on the battle flag, is a long revered
Christian symbol from Scotland—from which many of our forebears in
Northeast Georgia immigrated. Just as Wallace of Braveheart fame cried
“Freedom!”–the flag was a visible symbol of that same cry. Many soldiers
in modern wars (WWII and Vietnam for example) carried this flag as a
reminder of liberty. German citizens flew it at the fall of the Berlin
wall, and Romanians under communist rule called it the “freedom flag.”
More than a piece of cloth came down the pole on South Carolina’s
capital grounds. Hundreds of years of rich and revered tradition came
down as well.

Southerners rarely while away their leisure hours by contemplating
Yankees, for there is no point in thinking of unpleasant things if one
is not obliged to do so. Yet the practice does have value; to some
extent, at least, we are defined by those attributes which set us apart
from others, and sometimes we can be made aware of such attributes only
by observing people who do not share them. Another virtue of thinking
about Yankees, in the long run perhaps a more important one, is that it
serves to remind us that they have repeatedly tried to make us over in
their own image. Indeed, though it may seem that they have been off our
backs since the demise of the civil rights movement, their latest
campaign to reform us is actually well under way.

Some Democratic Party groups are renouncing their once-egalitarian
idols, the renaissance genius Thomas Jefferson and the populist Andrew
Jackson. Both presidents, some two centuries ago, owned slaves.
Consequently, the two men have been suddenly deemed unworthy of further
liberal reverence.

In Connecticut, for instance, the state Democratic Party has removed
the two presidents' names from an annual fundraiser previously known as
the Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey Dinner.

There are lots of strange paradoxes in the current frenzied liberal dissection of past sins.

Back in mid-June, after the Charleston shootings, the frenzied hue
and cry went up and any number of accusations and charges were made
against historic Confederate symbols, in particular, the Confederate
Battle Flag (which is not as some supposedly informed writers called it,
“the Stars and Bars.” The Stars and Bars is a different flag with a
totally different design). The best way to examine these charges in a
short column is point by point, briefly and succinctly.

First, the demand was made that the Battle Flag needs to come down,
that images of that flag need to be banned and suppressed, because,
whatever its past may have been, it has now become in the current
context a “symbol of hate” and “carried by racists,” that it “symbolizes
racism.” The problem with this argument is both historical and
etiological.

Historically, the Battle Flag, with its familiar Cross of St. Andrew,
was a square ensign that was carried by Southern troops during the War
Between the States. It was not the national flag of the Confederacy that
flew over slavery, but, rather, was carried by soldiers, 90-plus per
cent who did not own slaves (roughly comparable to percentages in
certain regiments of the Union army with some slave holding soldiers
from Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri in its ranks; indeed,
General Grant’s wife, Julia Dent Grant, owned slaves).

Most of us have seen the female owned 10.67 second Dodge Charger Hellcat video
bouncing around. Since then, that has been the fastest Hellcat around;
until now. In this video, Ross Kirkendoll’s Challenger SRT Hellcat
completes a smoldering pass in just 10.03 seconds at 140 mph. Although
Kirkendoll may have wished his kitty had a couple extra bites of
breakfast, a 10.03 pass is nothing to scoff at.

The Challenger Hellcat in stock configuration needs 10.8 seconds as
well as a pair of drag radials to achieve 140 mph. With 700 horsepower
and a price tag of just under $60k, it’s no surprise that more and more
of these bang-for-buck showroom dragsters are popping up all around the
country. So it’s only a matter of time until on of these Hellcats reach
the all mighty 9-second bracket.

Police today identified the suspect as 34-year-old Janard Shamar
Cunningham, also known as Janaris Shavar Cunningham. He has at least a
half dozen convictions dating back to 1999, and as many arrests in which
charges were dismissed during the same time period.

Cunningham is charged in the beating of a detective who is a six-year
veteran of the force.
Authorities said Cunningham stole the detective's
gun and then repeatedly hit him in the head until the detective stopped
moving.

For the average non-Southerner the
continued affection residents of Dixie display toward the controversial
Battle Flag can be baffling. If African-Americans are so incensed by the
banner, why not just fold it up and put it away? Greta Van Susteren of
Fox News called for just that and defined the issue a “no-brainer”. Why
indeed? The war has been over for 143 years. Certain unsavory groups of a
racist stripe seem unduly attached to the symbol as well. No one in the
print or electronic media seems willing to come forward and offer a
counterpoint. Is there another point of view after all?

Newspapers however, have developed
the habit of concluding all flag related stories the same way. The
throwaway line for the other point of view is usually something like
“flag defenders say the banner stands for heritage”. But what does that
mean? If such an understanding can be developed is it still not
overshadowed by prevailing negative opinions? Can a symbol so
emotionally charged ever be mutually understood?

Lowell,
Massachusetts, a former mill town of the red-brick-and-waterfall variety
25 miles north of Boston, has proportionally more Cambodians and
Cambodian-Americans than nearly any other city in the country: as many
as 30,000, out of a population of slightly more than 100,000. These are
largely refugees and the families of refugees from the Khmer Rouge, the
Maoist extremists who, from 1975 to 1979, destroyed Cambodia’s economy;
shot, tortured, or starved to death nearly two million of its people;
and forced millions more into a slave network of unimaginably harsh
labor camps. Lowell’s Cambodian neighborhood is lined with dilapidated
rowhouses and stores that sell liquor behind bullet-proof glass,
although the town’s leaders are trying to rebrand it as a tourist
destination: “Little Cambodia.”

Once again the MSM and Republican establishment are reporting the demise
of the Trump campaign. This time over his dust up with Megan Kelly and
her questions at the debate.

Trump might be crass and certainly has a track record of shooting off
his mouth before considering the consequences. None of that changes the
fact that FOX news and its stable of talking heads are just as deep in
the pockets of the Republican establishment as the NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN
cabal is in the pocket of the Democrat party establishment.

Both parties spend a thousand fold more time listening to the Wall
Street interests and begging them for cash than they do to any rank and
file party member or god forbid public opinion. This has been the
standard modis operandi of politics since the turn of the 20th century
if not longer.

Well guess what people are sick and tired of it. Their sick and tired of
politicians who have for decades told them "I hear you, elect me and we
will make some changes," and then as soon as they get to Congress or
the Senate they fall right in line with the party establishment and
break every promise they made.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.